Post subject: Honey West -- why haven't I heard of this TV show before?

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:38 pm

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I was gushing about how great my new two disc Forbidden Planet DVD is, and how hot Anne Francis is in that movie, and a friend told me she was the star of a 60s detective show called Honey West. Anyone here seen that? Doesn't look like it's available on DVD in the States (there were only 30 eps). Oh man was she easy on the eyes.

Honey West spun off of the original Burke's Law show. Anne did a cameo on the 90's Burke's Law as the character Honey Best.

She didn't survive in the ratings, airing opposite Gomer Pyle.

Side note toy trivia: The HW fashion doll was by A. C. Gilbert, who did the Man from Uncle and James Bond figures. A. C. Gilbert was America's oldest toy company (they marketed the original Erector sets), but was struggling in the 1960s. A defect in their 1966 Goldfinger slot-car set lead to massive returns during the Christmas season. Gilbert went under the following year, although Gabriel picked up the name and used it into the seventies.